The sea at the eastern end of Playa San Cristóbal was brown yesterday instead of blue, but that's natural; Rió Seco isn't 'seco' at the moment but rather is busily flowing.

The sea is discoloured with sediment washed down by the river but thankfully, it is no longer littered with fridges, old sofas and old TVs, like in the good ol’ bad ol’ days.

The Town Hall, however, felt it necessary to explain that we weren’t being attacked by Americans, Martians or mass diarrhoea, but rather that this phenomenon was “completely natural; i.e., muddy seawater, as opposed to being attacked by the aforementioned.

In fact, the Town Hall pointed out that where ever there was a river mouth or rambla outlet, you will get the same.

The thing is, that’s where our beaches get their sand from; a free delivery! Ever since they damned Río Guadalfeo, on the other hand, Motril Town Hall is reduced to shifting it from ramblas further inland or moving it from one beach to another in a fleet of lorries. No, all that sediment is piling up below the face of the dam, so that within our children’s lifetime the damned dam will have completely silted up.

Anyway, getting back to the Town Hall’s allaying the fears of the timerous… This brown stain “is very beneficial for the marina flora and fauna,” as it “enriches with mineral salts, essential nutrients,” which sounds like they copied it off the side of a shampoo bottle but it’s competely accurate, after all.

(News: Almunecar, Costa Tropical, Granada, Andalucia – Image/Video Still: Gandonniere Francois)

Keywords: Sea, Brown Stain, River Sediments, Sand, Natural Phenomenon

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